for the love of logos

Logo's are like signs, they immediately tell you what to do and what they are. They are one of the most creative elements of graphic art.

The Logo Blog

The Logo Blog has a post with some logos that are truly outstanding in design concept and execution. LogoBlog, has listed some of the best creative logos (though it’s not a ranking) in a random way. Click Here to visit (website opens in new window).

E Logo Design

E Logo Design has compiled a list of the Top 40 Logo Inspiration Resources Click Here to visit (website opens in new window).

E Logo Design has compiled a list of the Top 40 Logo Inspiration Resources. Many of them are quite good and although none were used as inspiration for the new multimediamotion logo, these pages are still regarded as highly useful.

Our top 10 Personal favorite logos must be mentioned. These logos exemplify style, brand-recognition, memorability and good taste:

The Apple logo is a classic example of a simple icon that is a stylized representation of what its name represents. First designed in 1976 in a rainbow of colors, the logo's shape is one of the most recognized brand symbols in the world and identifies all Apple products and retail stores.

The new logo reinvigorates the AT&T globe — one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world. The new globe is three-dimensional, representing the expanding breadth and depth of services that the new AT&T family of companies provides to customers, as well as its global presence.

The Firefox logo is a result of design collaboration from some of the most brilliant minds on the web and has inspired loyalty and even fanaticism throughout the world.

The Intel Inside® Program is one of the world's largest co-operative marketing programs, supported by thousands of PC makers who are licensed to use the Intel Inside® logos. Because of this, the awareness of "Intel" has grown along with the awareness of the chip, and today is associated with "technology leadership," "quality" and "reliability" and the Intel brand is one of the top ten known-brands in the world, in a class with Coke*, Disney* and McDonalds*, according to various rankings.

Carolyn Davidson, a graphic design student, was paid $35.00 for the swoosh design in 1971. (she was later compensated further with a gold ring and Nike Stock). At a time when all other companies were putting stripes on shoes, Nike pioneered a new and simple icon that sugggests movement and has become sononomous with footwear and athletecism.

The Mountain and Wave logo has embodied a lifestyle and can be found at the beach, at the bar, or at any music concert for an up and coming band. It has successfully blended the surf lifestyle with fashion and music influences and has set up its own organization to protect the environment and preserve the breaks of the world.

The RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") icon was introduced in Mozilla Firefox in order to indicate a web feed was present on a particular webpage that could be used in conjunction with the Live bookmarks function. In December 2005, the Microsoft IE team and Outlook team announced in their blogs that they will be adopting the feed icon first used in the Mozilla Firefox browser, effectively making the orange square with white radio waves the industry standard for both RSS and related formats such as Atom. Also in February 2006, Opera Software announced they too would add the orange square in their Opera 9 release.

In 1968, Target changed its three ring bullseye logo to the one currently in use. It has become one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the United States and can be seen from space painted on the roof of at least three Target stores (don't believe me? Google it).

The original Xbox logo was pulsing with power and even would tear out of the screen on occasion to demonstrate the ferocity and power that it contained. The 360 logo, on the other hand, still bears the familiar green "X", but it is in the core of a metallic sphere, which holds this power within and appears ready to unleash it when needed. Ironically, the logo is a sphere and not a box, but nevertheless it is an original iconic and clean design that evokes technology and digital mastery.

In 1941 in support of America's war effort, Pepsi changes the color of its bottle crowns to red, white and blue. This bottlecap shape evolved into a closer representation of today's logo in 1973 when the font changed to a more boxed look and less like the "cocoa-cola" typeface. In 1999, it evolved into a three-dimensional glove against an ice blue background.

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